John Philips wrote: > Peter, sorry if it appears that I'm using you as a target, but > you just put a big bullseye on yourself :-) If I understand > correctly, you suggest running puppet individually on every > single host and having the hosts query themselves, i.e. no > central puppetmaster? So, if I wanted to make a global change, > I'd have to somehow manually distribute new puppet manifests > out to every single host. That totally defeats what I see as > the purpose of puppet - centralized management of hosts.
You would need to distribute the manifests to the hosts in some way, yes, but that *can* be done automatically. If you have a shared filesystem (NFS, Lustre, GPFS, ...), you can put your manifests there. I do exactly that on two systems where I run Puppet. I know some people who run 'git pull' on the manifest repository in the cron job that runs puppet. Or you could use rsync in your cron job. /Bellman --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---